"The first week is the worst, when they tell you, 'We think you've got it, we just don't know how bad, and you've got a week until we'll have the biopsy results.'Sarah Occhino says the financial toll of her cancer added to her stress. After Occhino was delivered the bad news, she was almost immediately thrown into a gruelling treatment program expected to last six months.
Occhino said she was initially hopeful there would be adequate government assistance available to her. In another major financial blow, one of the two targeted therapy drugs for HER2-positive breast cancer, which her doctors recommended as the best course of treatment, is not fully subsidised. "They said you need to get out of there immediately and go to your real estate agent today," she said.
But the whole experience had left her wondering how other people coped with the financial wrecking ball of cancer, Occhino said. The network's Financial Impact of Breast Cancer Report found that over 25 per cent of respondents reported out-of-pocket costs for treatment exceedingly more than $17,200.
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